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(...) bandana (...) I dunno... One of my Gail faces has a streak going across her head that isn't printed at all, so I don't use her much... (...) I know what you mean... I've got some smiley faces that look normal unless you stare at them for a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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One of the medical staff in my Launch Command scenario has this head with brown shoulder-length hair. It gives her a 'professionally-styled' look, and differentiates her from the legion of smileys. I also have the Gail Storm astronaut; she's senior (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I've actually got a character that uses that head as well - no pictures, yet, because I need to do some building first. I think the one I have might have a slight printing offset or something because she definitely looks less 'sweet' than the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) extremely (...) No, I haven't tried neither. Wish I had them (head wraps OR Padme braids ;-) (...) Sounds good... I'd try, but I have yet to find any marker paints so haven't gotten to painting pieces -- yet... (I can hear Jeff Johnston (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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(...) I put a character together using that face with the Padme braids and witch's torso - I think it looks OK. Have you tried one of those blue or black bandana head wraps? (like the forest wench) (...) On the topic of modifying - I took a few (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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...Went to the Potomac Mills LEGO store and they had lots of Divers stuff with flexi-arms (suppose I should find the set numbers next time :-) [and they can ship if the set is no longer avail thru s@h] ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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About that Gail Storm face... (y'know, brown, curly hair, sweet expression) I really like that face. I have a character that fits the face really well. After thinking out a bit more of my story (for .castle, developing slowly) I realized that I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Wahoo! Thanks Steve! As for MPD, I've had a series of unexplainable problems trying to get the various MDP utilities to actually produce a renderable file. Oh well... Stick with what I know... :) --Karim (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Karim, KarimNassar.com? Cool! Are you hosting it yourself or farming it out? I'm going to be moving marsbase.com to the server under my desk at home "real soon now" so I'm always happy to hear about how others are doing it. By the way, if you can (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) If you go to (URL), there is a beta-version of LDAO with a recursive Inliner. But it only works on files referenced relative to the standard directories.[1] So if you've got a bunch of files somewhere other than ldraw\models, I'd suggest (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) [blink] Uhmmm.... Will you be posting this "automated method" so that those of us who have yet to master POV-RAY could possibly take advantage of your expertise? I've been trying to use POV-RAY, L2P, and L3P, and it's been rather difficult for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well, OK, maybe not weeks :) I'm currently working on the last element of the site, the DAT files. Does anyone know if LDAO has a Recursive Inline function? Going through 15+ models and inlining them (sometimes 10 files deep) is a real pain in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Well, as a professional Industrial Designer, I must point out that while technically, you are right that a better rendering doesn not improve a model, what we are concerned with is not the model, but people's perception of the model. A "nicer" (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Weeks? WEEKS?!? I've been checking daily, and I haveta wait weeks? Okay, I can't wait any more. I'm going into suspended animation (1), somebody wake me when the new Pallas Spaceworks is operational. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat 1. Well, just (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Thanks Karim. Regarding the POV-Ray... tried it... didn't like it. Anyway what's wrong with regular pics? I think they are fine. Anyway, regular pics = show model, POV-Ray = show model, make things "shiny". I mean, does better picture quality (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Miles Gentry wrote in message ... (...) Ok, you mis-read me (^: Horizontal wheels *do* indicate guidance to keep a vehicle on the beamway, if they're always engaging with a side friction rail. Actually, I give up (^: (...) correcting me. I didn't (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) I must second this. VERY nice. I've been pretty quiet recently, but I want to say that all of the recently posted models have been very good. Kudos to all of you guys. Mladen, I highly reccommend that you next look into doing POVray renderings (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) My mistake for assuming that the appearance of horizontal wheels always indicates their application to steering. You noted that such steering systems appear only in prototypes when used for passenger systems. In fact, my first exposure to such (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.build)
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(...) Uh, you tell me Alew? Look at the title of my website, Mladen's LEGO "Creations" meaning original models. Let look at a mini-fig, it is pre-fab meaning "someone already made it, meaning it's not original. So logically what would a person try (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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Rick Nice pictures. And thanks for letting me see this cool model firsthand. It's a brilliant use of stacked 1x1s. I especially like the use of 1x1 round plates stuck in the middle of four studs to get a tighter indentation. I also marvel at the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.arch)
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